Agent builds a working satellite TV receiver on FPGA with $500 in tokens
appenz · x · 2026-11-06
ivanmakarov built full, flawless satellite TV reception on an SDR setup (AD9361 + XC7Z020), reportedly using GPT-6-Astra and about $500 in tokens for all chip-level FPGA logic and software:
- With no full protocol documentation, the agent took 72 hours to get the protocol right.
- It then streamed video and audio successfully on an on-target web app.
- Google's appenz amplified it: "Crazy! Amazing work."
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